Ford makes a good case that (barring some actual errors) the revisions were made by Lewis in galleys, and were deliberate improvements, in some cases responses to observations by readers; and worth preserving.

This auction includes the unproofed galleys from the never-published Transylvania Press edition, as well as the unproofed galley of the Terminal Frights edition - and the winner will receive an autographed copy of The Temptation of Blood (not yet published, but delivered upon publication) which completes the cycle.

I gave the book in galleys to this wonderful young writer, maybe the second or third person to see it at that stage, and he read it and said to me, “It’s like Harold Bloom, but written by and for human beings.”

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In addition to four named ships listed as "belonging to the army" (British army) that were captured at Yorktown, also captured were "a considerable number of small sloops and schooners, and 12 or 15 galleys" as well as "private vessels."

This word was also used in the plural in one of my favorite exchanges in film history, from Ben-Hur: "Judah Ben-Hur! What are you doing here?!"